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Forthcoming Article on Kiobel and the Alien Tort Statute
Closed Published by Kedar S. Bhatia April 18th, 2012 in ScholarshipI’ve posted a new article on the Alien Tort Statute and Kiobel on SSRN. The article, Rethinking the Purely Jurisdictional View of the Alien Tort Statute, demonstrates that the Court should read the Alien Tort Statute as purely jurisdiction, rather than as a hybrid provision both granting jurisdiction to hear claims arising under the law [...]